Justification and Jesus Christ’s work

Justification is grounded in the death of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ’s death shields believers from God’s wrath

Romans 5:9 NASB95

9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

See also Ro 3:24; Ro 4:25; Ro 5:18; 1 Pe 2:24

Jesus Christ’s death fulfils the demands of the law of God

Romans 8:3–4 NASB95

3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

See also Ro 3:25–26; Ga 3:13; 1 Jn 2:2

Justification is grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Romans 4:25 NASB95

25 He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

See also Ac 2:22–39; Ac 4:10–12; Ac 17:30–31; 1 Pe 3:18–21

Justification means believers are reckoned as righteous through the death of Jesus Christ

Ro 5:19; 1 Co 1:30; 2 Co 5:21

See also 1 Co 6:9–11; Php 3:8–9 The term “imputation” is used to refer to the process by which God treats believers as being righteous in his sight on account of Jesus Christ’s death.

Justification is received by faith

Romans 1:17 NASB95

17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

See also Hab 2:4; Ro 5:1; Eph 2:8

The example of Abraham

Genesis 15:6 NASB95

6 Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

See also Ro 4:1–5; Ro 4:9–22; Ga 3:6–9; Ga 3:16–18

The example of David

Ro 4:6–8; Ps 32:1–2

Apostolic teaching on the need of faith for justification

Acts 13:39 NASB95

39 and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

See also Ro 3:22; Ro 3:25; Ro 3:27–30; Ro 4:5; Ro 5:1; Ro 9:30–32; Ro 10:10; 1 Co 6:11; Ga 2:16; Ga 3:8; Ga 3:14; Eph 2:8

Justification is a gift of God’s grace

Romans 3:24 NASB95

24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

See also Ro 5:15–17; Ro 8:33; Tt 3:7

Not by works or the law

Galatians 3:11 NASB95

11 Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “The righteous man shall live by faith.”

See also Ro 3:20; Ro 4:5; Ga 2:16; Ga 2:21; Ga 3:2–5; Ga 3:24; Ga 5:4–6; Eph 2:8–9